1st Edition
Voluntary Organizations and Innovation in Public Services
By Stephen P. Osborne
Copyright 1998
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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The innovative capacity of voluntary organizations has become a touchstone for their role in providing public services. Across the world there are increasing pressures on voluntary organizations to improve the quality and effectiveness of public services through innovation and change. This volume uses original research to assess the innovative capacity of voluntary organizations. It provides:
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Chapter 1 Voluntary and non-profit organizations and innovation in public services; Chapter 2 Conceptualizing voluntary activity; Chapter 3 Innovations, innovators and innovating; Chapter 4 Research methodology; Chapter 5 Mapping and defining the innovative activity of VNPOs; Chapter 6 Four causal hypotheses and a process; Chapter 7 The innovative capacity of VNPOs;
Biography
Osborne, Stephen P.
'An important text, enabling an understanding of the role of innovations and the organisational factors which support its development,' Catherine Driscoll, Local Government Studies
